Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-8429 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Microsoft products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Excel improperly discloses the contents of its memory, aka "Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Excel Viewer, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 8 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Nessus
NASL family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins NASL id SMB_NT_MS18_SEP_EXCEL_VIEWER.NASL description The Microsoft Office Viewer Products are missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability : - An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Excel improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who exploited the vulnerability could access information previously deleted from the active worksheet. (CVE-2018-8429) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 117422 published 2018-09-11 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/117422 title Security Updates for Microsoft Office Viewer Products (September 2018) NASL family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins NASL id SMB_NT_MS18_SEP_OFFICE_COMPATIBILITY.NASL description The Microsoft Office Compatibility Products are missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability : - An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Excel improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who exploited the vulnerability could access information previously deleted from the active worksheet. (CVE-2018-8429) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 117424 published 2018-09-11 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/117424 title Security Updates for Microsoft Office Compatibility Products (September 2018) NASL family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins NASL id SMB_NT_MS18_SEP_EXCEL.NASL description The Microsoft Excel Products are missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability : - An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Excel improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who exploited the vulnerability could access information previously deleted from the active worksheet. (CVE-2018-8429) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 117421 published 2018-09-11 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/117421 title Security Updates for Microsoft Excel Products (September 2018) NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOS_MS18_SEP_OFFICE.NASL description The Microsoft Office 2016 application or Microsoft Lync for Mac 2011 application installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities: - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. (CVE-2018-8331) - A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows font library improperly handles specially crafted embedded fonts. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. (CVE-2018-8332) - An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Excel improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who exploited the vulnerability could access information previously deleted from the active worksheet. (CVE-2018-8429) - A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Lync for Mac 2011 fails to properly sanitize specially crafted messages. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a targeted Lync for Mac 2011 user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 117409 published 2018-09-11 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/117409 title Security Update for Microsoft Office (September 2018) (macOS)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105219
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105219
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041630
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041630
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8429
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8429